error message at boot up

[k2]

Ok here's the thing, i got a computer from a friend that's pretty much a dinosaur. But it was running windows 98 just fine.

After it recognizes the drives it give me the error message-

Conflict I/O Ports : 2F8

Any ideas on how to remedy that?

K2

 

[Apokalipse]

how many drives have you got? and on which IDE ports?
maybe 2 drives of the same IDE channel have the same jumper settings (like both master)

 

[ADZ]

IS this during startup and then do you have to hit F1 to continue?

 

[ADZ]

more research is telling me: COM2 - 2F8 IRQ3

 

[k2]

It's a very old AT board, it has a modem in the ISA slot, and i put a network card into the PCI slot. I think that might be the problem. And yes it says Press F1 to continue.

Its running a Pentium MMX 200MHZ, has 128 megs pc100 RAM, ISA modem, ISA Sound card, PCI video card.

Drives are on seperate IDE channels and both set to Master on jumper settings.

 

[BxSlipSk8718]

FInd out what devic is using that irq

 

[Cappy]

take all the PCI devices out , boot up if it runs ok , add 1 then boot again till You find out what 1 is conflicting .